Flora and fauna in the Hansville Greenway

Compiled from 2004 records

BIRDS:

1.  Red-breasted sapsucker
2.  European starling
3.  Spotted towhee
4.  Ruby-crowned kinglet
5.  Bufflehead
6.  Lesser scaup
7.  Song sparrow
8.  Fox sparrow
9.  Winter wren
10.  Black-capped chickadee
11.  American
12.  Varied thrush
13.  Steller's jay
14.  Northern flicker
15.  Common raven
16.  Townsend's warbler
17.  Red-breasted nuthatch
18.  Brown creeper
19.  Belted kingfisher
20.  American crow
21.  House finch
22.  Chestnut-backed chickadee
23.  Golden-crowned kinglet
24.  Red-winged blackbird
25.  Red-tailed hawk
26.  Ring-necked duck
27.  Bald eagle
28.  Marsh wren
29.  Great blue heron
30.  Killdeer
31.  Pileated woodpecker
32.  Mallard
33.  Bewick’s wren
34.  Hairy woodpecker
35.  Double-crested cormorant
36.  Canada goose
37.  American wigeon
38.  Downy woodpecker
39.  Glaucous-winged gull
40.  Green-winged teal
41.  Evening grosbeak
42.  Bonaparte’s gull,
43.  Dark-eyed junco
44.  Bushtit
45.  Pine siskin
46.  Mourning dove
47.  Violet-green swallow
48.  Hooded Merganser
49.  Tree swallow
50.  Sharp-shinned hawk
51.  Warbling vireo
52.  Hutton’s vireo
53.  Pied-billed grebe
54.  Common yellowthroat
55.  Yellow-rumped warbler
56.  White-crowned sparrow
57.  Pacific-sloped flycatcher
58.  Osprey
59.  Orange-crowned warbler
60.  Barn swallow
61.  American goldfinch
62.  Turkey vulture
63.  Western wood pewee
64.  Cliff swallow
65.  Black-headed grosbeak
66.  Olive-sided flycatcher
67.  Swainson’s thrush
68.  Wood duck
69.  Wilson’s warbler
70.  Band-tailed pigeon
71.  Northern rough-winged swallow
72.  Willow flycatcher
73.  Cedar waxwing
74.  Rufous hummingbird  

MAMMALS:

1.  Douglas squirrel
2.  American beaver
3.  Raccoon

AMPHIBIANS:

1.  Tree frog
2.  Red-legged frog
3.  Northwestern salamander

 

TREES

-  Western hemlock (Tsuga heterophylla)
-  Douglas fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii)
-  Grand fir (Abies grandis)
-  Western cedar (Thuja plicata)
-  Red alder (Alnus rubra)
-  Bigleaf maple (Acer macrophyllum)
-  Black cottonwood (Populus balsamifera ssp. trichocarpa)
-  Pacific madrone (Arbutus menziesii

SHRUBS & SMALL TREES

-  Salal (Gaultheria shallon)
-  Red huckleberry (Vaccinium parvifolium)
-  Evergreen huckleberry (Vaccinium ovatum)
-  Labrador tea (Ledum groenlandicum)
-  Twinflower (Linnaea borealis)
-  Black twinberry (Lonicera involucrate)
-  Orange honeysuckle (Lonicera ciliosa)
-  Red elderberry (Sambucus racemosa)
-  Common snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus)
-  Oceanspray/creambush (Holodiscus discolor)
-  Sitka mountain-ash (Sorbus sitchensis)
-  Saskatoon/serviceberry (Amelanchier alnifolia)
-  Indian-plum/osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis)
-  Common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
-  Baldhip rose (Rosa gymnocarpa)
-  Nootka rose (Rosa nutkana)
-  Clustered wild rose (Rosa pisocarpa)
-  Salmonberry (Rubus spectabilis)
-  Black raspberry (Rubus leucodermis)
-  Thimbleberry (Rubus parviflorus)
-  Himalayan blackberry (Rubus discolor)*
-  Evergreen blackberry (Rubus laciniatus)*
-  Trailing blackberry (Rubus ursinus)
-  Hardhack/steeplebush (Spiraea douglasii)
-  Scotch broom (Cytisus scoparius)*
-  Red-flowering currant (Ribes sanguineum)
-  Black gooseberry (Ribes lacustre)
-  Sticky currant (Ribes viscosissimum)
-  Willows (Salix ssp.)
-  Red-osier dogwood (Cornus stolonifera)
-  Cascara (Rhamnus purshiana)
-  Beaked hazelnut (Corylus cornuta)
-  Dull Oregon-grape (Mahonia nervosa)
-  Tall Oregon-grape (Mahonia aquifolium)
-  American holly (Ilex aquifolium)*

 HERBACEOUS:

-  False solomon’s-seal (Smilacina racemosa)
-  Western trillium (Trillium ovatum)
-  False lily-of-the-valley (Maianthemum dilatatum)
-  Yellow-flag (Iris pseudoacorus)
-  Broadleaved dock (Rumex obtusifolius)
-  Western dock (Rumex occidentalis)
-  Candy flower (Claytonia sibirica)
-  Miner’s lettuce (Claytonia perfoliata)
-  Field chickweed (Cerastium arvense)
-  Bitter-cress ssp. (Cardamine ssp.)
-  Fringecup (Tellima grandiflora)
-  Foamflower (Tiarella trifoliate)
-  Creeping buttercup (Ranunculus repens)*
-  Meadow buttercup (Ranunculus acris)*
-  Large-leaved avens (Geum macrophyllum)
-  Pacific silverweed (Potentilla anserine ssp. pacifica)
-  Common vetch (Vicia sativa)*
-  White clover (Trifolium repens)*
-  Red clover (Trifolium pretense)*
-  Small hop-clover (Trifolium dubium)*
-  Fireweed (Epilobium angustifolium)
-  Enchanter’s nightshade (Circaea alpine)
-  Douglas’ water-hemlock (Cicuta douglasii)
-  Pacific water-parsley (Oenanthe sarmentosa)
-  Wild carrot/Queen Anne’s lace (Daucus carota)*
-  Pacific waterleaf (Hydrophyllum tenuipes)
-  American speedwell (Veronica Americana)
-  Marsh speedwell (Veronica scutellata)
-  Common dandelion (Taraxacum officinale)*
-  Wall lettuce (Lactuca muralis)
-  Yarrow (Achillea millefolium)
-  English daisy (Bellis perennis)*
-  Common beggarticks (Bidens frondosa)
-  Pearly everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacea)
-  Canada thistle (Circium arvense)*
-  Bull thistle (Circium vulgare)*
-  Stinging nettle (Urtica dioica)
-  Dovefoot geranium (Geranium molle)*
-  Northern starflower (Trientalis arctica)
-  Western starflower (Trientalis latifolia)
-  Cleavers (Galium aparine)
-  Sweet-scented bedstraw (Galium triflorum)
-  Skunk cabbage/swamp lantern (Lysichiton americanum)
-  Broad-leaved cattail (Typha latifolia)
-  Floating-leaved pondweed (Potamogeton natans)
-  Common mare’s-tail (Hippuris vulgaris)
-  Yellow pond-lily/spatterdock/cow-lily (Nuphar polysepatum

GRASSES & GRASS-LIKE:

-  Reed canarygrass (Phalaris arundinacea)
-  Orchard grass (Dactylis glomerata)*
-  Common velvet-grass (Holcus lanatus)*
-  Barnyard-grass (Echinochloa crusgalli)*
-  Sawbeak sedge (Carex stipata)
-  Slough sedge (Carex obnupta)
-  Soft-stemmed bulrush (Scirpus tabernaemontanii)
-  Soft rush (Juncus effuses)

FERNS & HORSETAILS:

-  Bracken fern (Pteridium aquilinum)
-  Deer fern (Blechnum spicant)
-  Sword fern (Polystichum munitum)
-  Lady fern (Athyrium filix-femina)
-  Spiny wood fern (Dryopteris expansa)
-  Licorice fern (Polypodium glycyrrhiza)
-  Field horsetail (Equisetum arvense)
-  Scouring rush (Equisetum hyemale)

 * = non-native